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...things which Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick have in common is their headmaster. As prep-school boys both stood-and perhaps still stand, a little-in awe of the most famed U.S. headmaster of his generation: the founder of small, ultra-swank Groton School. Endicott Peabody, a living legend at 87, retired from Groton's headmastership in 1940-to a new house just off the campus. Last week he received his first full-length biography, Peabody of Groton (Coward McCann; $5), based in large part on his persistent and prodigious correspondence...
Died. Loreto Santarelli, 57, soft-tongued, Italian-born maître d'hôtel of London's big, swank Savoy since 1926, inventor of Britain's war-famed Woolton Pie (crusted vegetable stew with bacon rinds), confident to gourmets, statesmen, royalty; of a heart attack; in London. Released after brief internment at the beginning of the war, British Subject Santarelli guided his guests politely among steel girders to the Savoy's emergency bomb-cellar dining rooms during the blitz...
Last week, after puffing up his earnings with three one-reel shorts for Columbia (King of the Fairways, The Iron-Masters, Chips and Putts), Byron Nelson called time out. He tossed his clubs aside, resigned as pro at Toledo's swank Inverness Club, and headed for the Pacific North west and several weeks of hunting and fishing. The softspoken, 32-year-old Texan had better control over his nerves, as well as his shots, than ever before, but he needed a rest. He would play no more tournaments until the Portland (Ore.) Open, starting...
Drew Pearson, who has long hobnobbed with top-drawer Washington society, was unceremoniously dropped from the just-issued 1945 edition of the swank Washington Social List. The explanation: sharp-sniping, chitchatting Columnist Pearson "gets into too many controversies and has trodden on too many toes...
...Navy long ago took over swank establishments like Honolulu's Royal Hawaiian Hotel for bluejackets returned from combat. About 5,000 Army airmen rest each month at topflight resort hotels in the U.S. Finally, last week some of the same kind of luxury was dished up for G.I. Joe himself...